Katherine M. Morrison

Dr. Katherine Morrison is a pediatric endocrinologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University. Her clinical and research interests relate to the determinants, adverse health consequences and treatment of childhood obesity and lipid disorders in children. Dr. Morrison completed her medical school and pediatric training at the University of Calgary, and her endocrinology training at Stanford University, California. She has held clinical and research positions at the University of Manitoba and the University of Munich. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Preventive Cardiology at the Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University with Drs. Yusuf and Teo.

She is active clinically in the Pediatric Lipid Clinic and the Overweight at Risk Clinic at McMaster Children's Hospital. Dr. Morrison is supported in her work by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.